March 27 Show: All You Can Eat
It's never really just about food, is it?
At first glance, All You Can Eat sounds like it might be about meals, recipes, indulgence, or excess. And yes, food shows up. But this month’s stories aren’t just about what’s on the plate. They’re about what food teaches us. About our bodies. About belonging. About control, comfort, shame, pleasure, kindness, and memory. About the rules we absorb early and the stories we tell ourselves long after the table is cleared.
All You Can Eat is an evening of true, personal storytelling about the strange, funny, revealing ways food weaves itself into our lives and relationships.
And like all great storytelling, these stories work best when heard in a room full of other people listening, laughing, and recognizing themselves in one another.
We can’t wait to see you there, humans!
The Storytellers
Four voices take the stage on March 27, each bringing a very different relationship to food, family, and self-understanding:
Keith Staten
Keith tells a dramatic, emotionally layered story fueled by how food is connected to shame, complicity, and the complicated ways we learn how to treat the people closest to us.
Anne Rutherford
Anne shares a (mostly) funny childhood story about resorting to desperate measures to evade the wrath of a tyrannical cook.
Steph Rodriguez
A beloved Sacramento voice and first-time Nutshell storyteller, Steph shares a journey of loss, resilience, and discovery from childhood upheaval to finding her voice through journalism and food writing, eventually passing that sense of curiosity and connection on to her son.
Beau Ryder Davis
An audience favorite, Beau brings a characteristically hilarious story rooted in his college years and a developing binge habit. Funny, candid, and unmistakably Beau.
Together, these stories form a night that feels playful on the surface and resonant underneath, the kind of evening where you laugh hard and then find yourself thinking about it later. It’s going to be a great night!
The Night
📅 Friday, March 27, 2026
🕖 7pm (doors at 6pm)
📍 The Sofia, Sacramento
👥 Come alone, bring a friend, make it a night out. All are welcome!
If you’ve been to In a Nutshell before, you already know the rhythm: a room full of attentive humans, big laughs, reflective moments, and stories that don’t flatten life into easy lessons.
If you haven’t been yet, March is a really good place to start.
🎟️ Tickets are available through The Sofia box office
(And yes, tickets are a little cheaper in advance than at the door.)
We can’t wait to see you in real life, humans!
xoxo,
Amy Bee
(and her All-You-Can-Eat pals, Keith & Aaron)
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xoxo, Amy